The physics feel somewhat grounded in reality, and you’ll notice big differences in how various cars handle, but the driving model is very forgiving, and it’s easy for anyone to pick up and play.
While Horizon isn’t exactly a Ridge Racer-style arcade game, it’s certainly on the more accessible side of things. Forza Horizon 5, the latest release, relocates to Mexico and turns out to be the best Forza Horizon yet - as well as one of the best games of the year.ĭespite the name and the hundreds of accurately modeled real-world cars, Forza Horizon has little in common with Turn 10 Studios’ Forza Motorsport series, which is more of a serious racing simulator. With each entry in the series, developer Playground Games has delivered relentlessly entertaining open-world racing in vividly rendered settings. Ever since, virtually all big-budget arcade racing games have been made in the shadow of Paradise, with most tracks consisting of lines drawn across vast, explorable maps.Īs someone who is personally not very happy about this turn of events, I have to admit that Microsoft’s Forza Horizon series has been a pretty spectacular product of it all.
By taking the classic series open-world, Criterion essentially obsoleted the concept of traditional racers - here are your cars, here are your tracks, learn to drive the former to perfect the latter - at least in the eyes of major publishers. If you’re an arcade racing game purist, Burnout Paradise has a lot to answer for.
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